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The Battle of Fort Donelson: No Terms but Unconditional Surrender
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In February 1862, after defeats at Bull Run and at Wilson's Creek in Missouri, the Union army was desperate for victory on the eve of its first offensive of the Civil War. The strategy was to penetrate the Southern heartland with support from a new "Brown Water"? navy. In a two-week campaign plagued by rising floodwaters and brutal winter weather, two armies collided in rural Tennessee to fight over two forts that controlled the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. Those intense days set the course of the war in the Western Theater for eighteen months and determined the fates of Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew H. Foote and Albert Sidney Johnston. Historian James R. Knight paints a picture of this crucial but often neglected and misunderstood turning point.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements and a Note on Sources
- Prologue
- Chapter 1. The Confederates: April to September 1861
- Chapter 2. The Federals: April to September 1861
- Chapter 3. Albert Sidney Johnston Takes Command
- Chapter 4. Defending the Rivers
- Chapter 5. The Brown Water Navy
- Chapter 6. Command and Control
- Chapter 7. First Blood
- Chapter 8. Time Grows Short
- Chapter 9. Time Runs Out
- Chapter 10. “Make Your Preparations to Take and Hold Fort Henry”
- Chapter 11. Fire on the River
- Chapter 12. Gunboats in the Heart of Dixie
- Chapter 13. The Main Event
- Chapter 14. Wednesday, February 12, 1862: The First Day
- Chapter 15. Thursday, February 13, 1862: The Second Day
- Chapter 16. Friday, February 14, 1862: The Third Day
- Chapter 17. Saturday, February 15, 1862: The Fourth Day
- Chapter 18. Sunday, February 16, 1862: The Last Day
- Epilogue
- Appendix A. The Leaders
- Appendix B. Order of Battle
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
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